John Pegram

John Pegram (24 January 1832-6 February 1865) was a Brigadier-General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and the older brother of William Pegram. Pegram was killed at the Battle of Hatcher's Run in February 1865.

Biography
John Pegram was born in Petersburg, Virginia in 1832, the older brother of William Pegram. He graduated tenth in his class from West Point in 1854 in the same class as J.E.B. Stuart, Stephen D. Lee, and Oliver Otis Howard, and he served on the frontier as a US Army soldier before becoming a cavalry instructor at West Point and an observer of the Austrian Empire's war with Sardinia-Piedmont in 1858-1859. On 10 July 1861, he was commissioned as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Confederate States Army when Virginia seceded from the Union, and he became the first Confederate officer to surrender to the Union when he surrendered his entire regiment at the Battle of Rich Mountain in West Virginia. In early 1862, he was exchanged, and he served as Edmund Kirby Smith's chief-of-staff in Kentucky. In November 1862, he was given command of a cavalry brigade, and he remained in command despite fiascos at Stones River and Somerset in 1863. In October 1863, he was reassigned to the Eastern Theater, serving as a brigade commander in Jubal Early's division of the Army of Northern Virginia. William's brigade attacked the Union V Corps at the Battle of Hatcher's Run on 6 February 1865, and he was killed when the Union forces repelled his attack.